Notion just gave its AI agents a much longer leash. Agents and Custom Agents can now run for more than 24 hours on a single task. The old limit? Five minutes. Co-founder Akshay Kothari confirmed the change on October 19 and said it comes down to rebuilt infrastructure, so sessions can now survive service restarts without losing their place.

Two credit pools, one bill

The pricing side changed too. Business and Enterprise seats now get two monthly credit allowances: 1,500 Standard credits and 500 Select credits per seat.

Standard credits cover work where Notion picks the model. Select credits are for jobs where you choose the model yourself, or where a Custom Agent does the work. Admins can top up credits and decide how they're shared across the workspace. New customers are on the new system already. Existing customers switch over on November 2.

The router doing the heavy lifting

Behind the scenes sits a model router called Auto. It sends each job to the cheapest model that can handle it well. In Notion's own testing across 20+ common use cases, Auto matched results from models like Opus 5.5 while cutting average cost by roughly 90%. The company also says agents now run up to 50% faster, and Custom Agent runs cost about 30% less.

Take those numbers with a pinch of salt, though. They're vendor benchmarks. A 90% saving in Notion's tests doesn't guarantee 90% on your workload, and we'll believe the quality claims fully once independent users report back.

Why it matters for teams

The practical change is simple. Jobs that used to die in a five-minute session, things like recurring research digests, candidate screening pipelines and ongoing content work, can now run overnight inside the workspace your team already lives in. And because spend is metered in credits admins can see, finance teams get fewer nasty surprises. An AI Command Center with usage dashboards and spending limits is on the way to round it out.

Our take? Longer runs plus honest metering is exactly what agents need before teams trust them with real work. We'll be watching how the credit system feels in practice.